Friday, July 17, 2009

Luniversary

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The press is atwitter this week about the 40th anniversary of the moon landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin,with Michael Collins orbiti...

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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One morning earlier this week, as I was preparing to leave for the Tuesday Morning Group Coalition monthly meeting in Richmond, I became awa...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

To Sur, With Love

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As part of the gargantuan (1,000-page-plus) health care "reform" package introduced by members of the Democratic majority in Cong...
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Review of 'The Color Purple'

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Here is my review of The Color Purple , now playing in the Kennedy Center 's Opera House, prepared for publication in The Metro Herald ....
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Slow Brew

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It may be eleven days after the fact, but it is not too late to report on the Charlottesville Tea Party that took place on Independence Day ...
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Bare Naked Nudity

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A number of news stories in recent days have a common thread -- even if they lack "threads" in the street patois sense. First came...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Virginian Francis Collins to Head NIH

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During graduation season, I wrote an article that included a report about Dr. Francis Collins as the commencement speaker at Virginia Commo...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Definitely Not a Libertarian

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I visited C-VILLE , a Charlottesville weekly newspaper, in my previous post , and I find myself in its pages again . Speaking about a new la...

Creigh Deeds, Millionaire Philanthropist?

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Is Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds a secret millionaire? A comment by one of his campaign spokespeople in a Charlottesvil...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

Celebrating the Fourth of July

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In honor of Independence Day, I have collected various versions of our national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner" (lyrics by Fran...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Happy Canada Day!

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Let's take a few moments to wish our friends to the north a happy Canada Day. It was on this day in 1867 that a brave band of Canadians ...

A Sense of Priorities?

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From a news release distributed by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, noting that the post-election protests in Iran had dominated t...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Prolificity

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Forgive the solipsism, but I just noticed that, as an intermittent blogger, I seldom create more blog posts than there are days in a month. ...

'It Was a Dark and Stormy ...'

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Snoopy is not the only imitator of Paul Clifford , the novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton with the much-mocked opening sentence that begins, ...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

You Say Potato, I Say Tomato

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Hot off the press: Men and women have different opinions of what they find attractive in a potential (opposite-sex) mate. Dustin Wood of Wa...

Not Exactly Thomas Edison, But ...

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A lot of odd details about the life of the late Michael Jackson have been cropping up in the days since he died and went to Neverland, spar...